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1. “In losing his past, he lost everything.”

Ivan Turgenev

Memory, Loss, Past, Identity, Emptiness

2. “Like a beetle tied by the leg, I hovered incessantly around the beloved wing; I believe I would have liked to remain there forever... but that was impossible.”

Ivan Turgenev

Love, Obsession, Desire, Restraint, Loss

3. “To be young and not to know how, is bearable; to be old and not have the strength, is too great a weight to carry. And what’s is so painful you can’t sense your powers leaving you. It’s hard for an old man to ensure such blows!”

Ivan Turgenev

Aging, Loss, Strength, Despair, Reflection

4. “I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.”

Ivan Turgenev

Grief, Nature, Reflection, Loss, Emotion

5. “When anything goes, it’s women who lose.”

Camille Paglia

Women, Gender, Society, Loss, Equality

6. “A flow’ret crushed in the bud, A nameless piece of Babyhood, Was in her cradle-coffin lying; Extinct, with scarce the sense of dying.”

Charles Lamb

Loss, Innocence, Grief, Mortality, Childhood

7. “When true hearts lie wither’d And fond ones are flown, Oh, who would inhabit This bleak world alone?”

Charles Lamb

Love, Loss, Loneliness, Grief, Devotion

8. “The tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls, Shall long keep his memory green in our souls.”

Charles Lamb

Grief, Remembrance, Sorrow, Emotion, Loss

9. “All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.”

Charles Lamb

Loss, Nostalgia, Memory, Time, Reflection

10. “How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.”

Charles Lamb

Loss, Memory, Nostalgia, Friendship, Reflection

11. “Oh, breathe not his name! let it sleep in the shade, Where cold and unhonour’d his relics are laid.”

Charles Lamb

Silence, Memory, Honor, Loss, Reflection

12. “I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days – All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.”

Charles Lamb

Nostalgia, Childhood, Friendship, Loss, Memory

13. “Better to be lost for something worthwhile. Instead of getting lost in everything worthless.”

Ankur Warikoo

Purpose, Value, Direction, Loss, Meaning

14. “Strange how we give birth to kids. And then kill their curiosity!”

Ankur Warikoo

Curiosity, Parenting, Growth, Creativity, Loss

15. “Loss is a result. Fear is an input. You don't control your results. You always control your inputs.”

Ankur Warikoo

Loss, Fear, Control, Effort, Mindset

16. “You know who are devastated by the crypto crash? Those who invested driven by FOMO.”

Ankur Warikoo

Crypto, FOMO, Loss, Decision, Risk

17. “If you are scared of losing You have already lost!”

Ankur Warikoo

Fear, Loss, Courage, Mindset, Freedom

18. “We hold on to what we have because we don’t know how to get it again.”

Ankur Warikoo

Fear, Attachment, Uncertainty, Loss, Confidence

19. “Some families sell their stocks off a little bit at a time to live high, and then – boom – somebody takes them over, and it all goes down the drain.”

Sam Walton

Wealth, Risk, Family, Loss, Management

20. “In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost.”

V.S. Naipaul

Conflict, War, Neutrality, Loss, Perspective

21. “A complying memory has obliterated many of them and edited my childhood down to a brief cinematic blur.”

V.S. Naipaul

Memory, Childhood, Time, Reflection, Loss

22. “All landscapes eventually turn to land, the gold of the imagination to the lead of reality.”

V.S. Naipaul

Imagination, Reality, Change, Perception, Loss

23. “Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.”

Democritus

Greed, Loss, Consequence, Ethics, Deception

24. “Immoderate grief is selfish, harmful, brings no advantage to either the mourner or the mourned, and dishonors the dead.”

Plutarch

Grief, Loss, Selfishness, Wisdom, Honor

25. “Fare thee well my nightingale, I lived but to be near you. Though you are singing somewhere still, I can no longer hear you.”

Leonard Cohen

Farewell, Love, Distance, Longing, Loss

26. “Every time you grab at love you will lose a snowflake of your memory.”

Leonard Cohen

Love, Memory, Loss, Experience, Metaphor

27. “I loved you when you opened like a lily to the heat; you see I’m just another snowman standing in the rain and sleet who loved you with his frozen love, his second-hand physique, with all he is and all he was a thousand kisses deep.”

Leonard Cohen

Love, Devotion, Loss, Emotion, Metaphor

28. “Everybody knows that the dice are loaded, Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed, Everybody knows that the war is over, Everybody knows the good guys lost.”

Leonard Cohen

Fate, Corruption, War, Loss, Reality

29. “Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.”

Leonard Cohen

Happiness, Irony, Loss, Perspective, Reflection

30. “There are no letters in the mailbox And there are no grapes upon the vine And there are no chocolates in your boxes anymore And there are no diamonds in the mine.”

Leonard Cohen

Loss, Emptiness, Absence, Metaphor, Desolation

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